GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS ON ISLAND OF HELIGOLAND BLOWN UP. — ln foreground are torpedo warheads which German workers placed into a network of tunnels forming the Heligoland fortifications whilst on left and right are discarded containers, contents of which were loaded into the warship pens, coast batteries and 8½ miles of tunnels 180 feet below the ground, was blown up on April 18. Aim of demolition was to reduce the island to rubble precluding future fortification. (A.P . photo )
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22316, 29 April 1947, Page 5
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76GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS ON ISLAND OF HELIGOLAND BLOWN UP.—In foreground are torpedo warheads which German workers placed into a network of tunnels forming the Heligoland fortifications whilst on left and right are discarded containers, contents of which were loaded into the warship pens, coast batteries and 8½ miles of tunnels 180 feet below the ground, was blown up on April 18. Aim of demolition was to reduce the island to rubble precluding future fortification. (A.P. photo) Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22316, 29 April 1947, Page 5
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